Dr. Ilenia Battiato, who worked on this project as part of her doctoral
dissertation with Prof. Daniel Tartakovsky at UC San Diego, will join the
faculty of Clemson University in March 2012. She is currently a
post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Goettingen, Germany,
and was recently featured on German television as part of their
Brilliant Minds
series.

Project Co-PI Dr. Alexandre Tartakovsky has been selected to receive an Early Career
Research Program award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science. This highly competitive award provides $2.5 million
over five years; the proposed research entitled "New Dimension Reduction Methods
and Scalable Algorithms for Multi-Scale Nonlinear Phenomena" is an outgrowth of
research performed under this SciDAC project.

Zoomed-in view of a 3D visualization of pore-scale fluid flow computed
using the parallel
Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics code developed under this project. Solid grains are represented
as shaded gray quasi-spheres. Transparent surfaces indicate regions of high fluid flow
velocity. Traces of individual fluid particles are also shown, colored according to their
velocity (with bright green being the fastest particles). Visualization created by Kwan-Liu Ma
and colleagues at the Institute for
Ultra-Scale Visualization, University of California at Davis.

Hybrid Numerical Methods for Multiscale Simulations
of Subsurface Biogeochemical Processes:
In this SciDAC Science Application, we are developing an integrated multiscale modeling framework with
the capability of directly linking different process models at continuum, pore, and
sub-pore scales. These codes will be modified and/or developed using advanced
high-performance component architectures and efficient parallel solvers, and will be
integrated into a component-based workflow environment to facilitate seamless integration
of codes operating at multiple scales with different physical, biological, and chemical
conceptualizations appropriate to the needs of specific simulation problems.